Family and Education
b. by 1494, 3rd s. of Sir Thomas Long of Draycot Cerne, and bro. of Sir Henry. m. settlement 10 Nov. 1541, Margaret, da. of John Donington of Stoke Newington, Mdx., wid. of Sir Thomas Kitson (d. 11 Sept. 1540) of London and Hengrave, Suff., 1s. 3da. Kntd. 18 Oct. 1537.Date of birth estimated from first office. Wilts. Vis. Peds. (Harl. Soc. cv, cvi), 117; Surr. Arch. Colls. iv. 24-25; C142/74/11, 13; PCC 18 Alen.
Offices Held
King’s spear, Calais 1515; esquire of the stable 1533; keeper, Eltham park 1534, Southwark palace and Paris garden 1536, St. Thomas’s hospital Southwark 1538, Otford and Knole, Kent 1542; gent. usher 1535 gent. privy chamber 1536; master of the buckhounds and hawks 1538; j .p. Surr. 1538 – 43, Calais 1541, Yorks. 1542 – 43; steward of the Household 1540; capt. Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks. 27 Feb. 1542, Alderney, Guernsey, and Sark 1541 – Mar. 1545; member council in the north 1542; commr. benevolence Surr. 1544/45, Kent 1546, array, Kent 1545, chantries Kent, Canterbury, Rochester 1546.
Main residences: Southwark, Surr.; Shingay, Cambs.
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Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
LONG, Sir Richard (by 1494-1546)
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Oxford 1644
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